Accretion disk

Quality:

Accretion disc - structure formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a massive central body. Article “Accretion disk” in Simple English Wikipedia has 6.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Accretion disk”, its content was written by 8 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 882 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 111 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6363 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1624 in January 2014
• Global: #6275 in July 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3596 in November 2014
• Global: #14390 in November 2014

There are 40 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Accretion disk		67.2361
2	Chinese (zh) 吸积盘		50.9236
3	German (de) Akkretionsscheibe		43.1948
4	Malay (ms) Cakera tokokan		42.4818
5	Japanese (ja) 降着円盤		37.894
6	Turkish (tr) Yığılma diski		30.6677
7	Czech (cs) Akreční disk		26.6862
8	Hindi (hi) अभिवृद्धि चक्र		26.5921
9	Croatian (hr) Akrecijski disk		25.4871
10	Vietnamese (vi) Đĩa bồi tụ		25.1489

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Accretion disk		2 176 029
2	Russian (ru) Аккреционный диск		519 069
3	Japanese (ja) 降着円盤		324 984
4	Spanish (es) Disco de acrecimiento		320 980
5	German (de) Akkretionsscheibe		235 086
6	Polish (pl) Dysk akrecyjny		178 336
7	French (fr) Disque d'accrétion		176 889
8	Chinese (zh) 吸积盘		150 388
9	Italian (it) Disco di accrescimento		109 289
10	Portuguese (pt) Disco de acreção		82 136

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Accretion disk		10 535
2	Russian (ru) Аккреционный диск		1 666
3	Japanese (ja) 降着円盤		1 368
4	German (de) Akkretionsscheibe		945
5	Chinese (zh) 吸积盘		815
6	Spanish (es) Disco de acrecimiento		771
7	French (fr) Disque d'accrétion		702
8	Simple English (simple) Accretion disk		521
9	Polish (pl) Dysk akrecyjny		388
10	Korean (ko) 강착원반		344

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Accretion disk		198
2	German (de) Akkretionsscheibe		82
3	French (fr) Disque d'accrétion		65
4	Italian (it) Disco di accrescimento		43
5	Spanish (es) Disco de acrecimiento		39
6	Dutch (nl) Accretieschijf		39
7	Japanese (ja) 降着円盤		33
8	Polish (pl) Dysk akrecyjny		31
9	Russian (ru) Аккреционный диск		29
10	Hebrew (he) דיסקת ספיחה		27

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Accretion disk		3
2	Arabic (ar) قرص تنام		1
3	Belarusian (be) Акрэцыйны дыск		0
4	Bulgarian (bg) Акреционен диск		0
5	Catalan (ca) Disc d'acreció		0
6	Czech (cs) Akreční disk		0
7	German (de) Akkretionsscheibe		0
8	Greek (el) Δίσκος προσαύξησης		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Alkreska disko		0
10	Spanish (es) Disco de acrecimiento		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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